Emory & Henry campus is said to be haunted by alleged suicide victims, Civil War soliders, Ladies in White, jilted lovers and ghost lights.In L. B. Taylor, Jr.’s 2003 book The Ghosts of Virginia, Vol. III, the author writes that Wiley Jackson Women’s Dormitory, or "MaWa" Hall, is supposed to be haunted by the spirit of a girl who was stood-up for a date. As the story goes, the girl hanged herself when she realized she was not going on the date and that sometimes her high heeled steps can be heard walking the hall, still waiting for her date.In L. B. Taylor, Jr.’s 2006 book The Ghosts of Virginia, Vol. VIII, the author writes that the Administration Building, Emory Cemetery, Memorial Chapel and the Music Hall are haunted.The Administration Building (President's House) is the site of many Civil War soldier sightings, even though the building that was used as a make-shift hospital was replaced by the current one. The building sits where Wiley Hall once stood. During what some historians call “The Saltville Massacre”, where African American soliders of the Fifth Union States Colored Calvary were slaughtered by a Confederate militia led by Captain Champ Ferguson in October 1864, wounded soldiers from both sides of the Mason–Dixon Line were hospitalized in Wiley Hall. Those who passed are said to haunt the basement. Also, sightings of a ghostly Lady in White carrying a lantern and nicknamed “Freda” has been said to walk the halls.Taylor also writes that phantom lights and apparitions of some of these soldiers appear in the cemetery. The light is said to come from the train tracks and end at the cemetery.He continues by saying that another Lady in White is sometimes seen, accompanied by the smell of roses, near the stained glass window at Memorial Chapel.Taylor writes that the lamp outside of the Music Hall (Byars Hall Visual and Performing Arts Center) swings on its own and is blamed on an accidental death by students. The story says that a boy fell out of the window and missed grabbing the lamp and it now swings in memory of his death.In her 2005 book Legends, Stories and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia, author Donna Gayle Akers writes that the second floor of Waterhouse Hall (Carriger Hall and Matthews Hall) is supposed to be haunted by an African American student, nicknamed “Nora”, who was involved in a scandal. Legend maintains she either became pregnant by one of the presidents of the college or a church bishop. When she confronted the father of the child, he pushed her down the stairs. Since her death, she is blamed for windows opening and closing and doors locking and unlocking, all on their own.In his 2007 book The Marble and Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and Virginia, author Joe Tennis concludes this exhaustive list by writing that the J. Stewart French House and Tobias Smyth Cabin are haunted. Tennis writes that the J. Stewart French House (J. Stewart French Alumni House) is haunted by an unnamed boy who makes occasional appearances but more often is responsible for the sound of a piano playing when no one is near the piano and waking guests up in the middle of the night by tapping on their shoulder. Tennis documents that the Tobias Smyth Cabin (Tobias Smyth House), moved from its original site to the campus, is haunted by a ghostly girl named “Melissa”. Legend maintains that the girl disappeared from her home while her parents were out and that since then her apparition has been seen around the cabin, holding a candle; sometimes only the candle light is seen.Most of these stories cannot be validated, but they make living on campus much more interesting. 
